Guba, April-May 1918. Documented Pogroms of the Muslims
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File No.62
Record of Examination
On this 16th day of December, 1918, in Guba
Novatski, the member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission
established by the Government of Azerbaijan, examined the following
person as a witness, pursuant to the Criminal Court Regulations:
Witness: Durna Meshadi Talyb gyzy, aged 30, a Guba resi-
dent, illiterate.
My husband Jafargulu passed away naturally a while ago. The
Armenians did not harm me physically or injure me, however they
grabbed a lot of stuff from my home and shot to death my mother
Salba, my brother Safarali and two neighbors of ours, a father and a
son. They said they were killing them because they had killed their Ar-
menian brethren. The grabbed by personal assets and chopped down
our orchard, causing the general loss of 6 thousand rubles mo my
detriment.
There is nothing I can add to this.
Read aloud to and signed by the witness in Arabic characters
Translated by E.Khanbudaghov (certified by a signature)
Signed by A.Novatski, the member of the Commission
Reference: SARA, f.1061, op.1, d.96, ll.52
File No.63
Record of Examination
On this 18th day of December, 1918, in Guba
Novatski, the member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission
established by the Government of Azerbaijan, examined the following
person as a witness, pursuant to the Criminal Court Regulations:
Witness: Kerbelai Pasha Turab oghlu, aged 45, a Guba resi-
dent, illiterate.
We heard of an Armenian squad heading towards Guba. Like
many others around, I paid little attention to that as we had nothing
to argue about with the Armenians, and we thought of some 40 per-